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say it: DWEL-ing
dwelling is a noun meaning "housing that someone is living in". It is pronounced /ˈdwɛlɪŋ/ — DWEL-ing. It carries one recorded sense.
housing that someone is living in
“he built a modest dwelling near the pond”
“they raise money to provide homes for the homeless”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for dwelling come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.